49 years latter and its still painful to watch. I don't think we still really understand what we lost.

Ishola Taiwo

May 2, 2010, 04:22 PM

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This was the song played as an encore at a Papa Wemba & Viva La Musica concert I attended in 1990. The energy when they came back out for this was amazing. You would think that they were just starting. And the audience went wild....

DeepThought, if you look at the history and at what we have now, it is is hard not to believe that we (i.e. the African collective) have actually gone backwards.

DeepThought

May 2, 2010, 04:36 PM

DeepThought, if you look at the history and at what we have now, it is is hard not to believe that we (i.e. the African collective) have actually gone backwards.

Yes.
But that is inevitable if men like Lumumba are replaced with monsters like Mobutu (and Obasanjo, Abacha, and IBB e.t.c.....)

Ishola Taiwo

May 2, 2010, 04:48 PM

Yes.
But that is inevitable if men like Lumumba are replaced with monsters like Mobutu (and Obasanjo, Abacha, and IBB e.t.c.....)

Yes, just imagine: during the 1950s, '60s and early 70s, Africa still had minds Kwame Nkrumah, Amilcar Cabral, Steve Biko, Lumumba, Samora Machel, and Thomas Sankara. We went from these to Mobutu (the Daddy of them all and still the most desirable prototype in some circles), Obasanjo, Babangida, Compaore, Taylor, and younger ones like the butcher of Central Africa, Rwanda's Kagame (the Mobutu for the 21st Century's New World Order).

Na wa...oya, find yourself a bottle of something alcoholic, drain it and get on the dance floor...abi?

I remember a line from a Miles Davis autobiography - something about how he hated seeing all those pictures of Black entertainers grinning because "...Black people have got nothing to smile about.."